October 4, 2007

Pros And Cons For Selling Home With FSBO (For Sale By Owner)

Updated October 7, 2007
In my previous blog, I wrote about "8 Factors To Consider If You Need A Real Estate Agent Or Not". This will help you to decide if you want to sell your home for sale by owner (FSBO) or to hire a right real estate agent to sell your home for you.

 

I have not mentioned what are the when selling your home with FSBO. I came across an artilce about the Pros and Cons on for sale by owner. It is a view from a real estate agent's propective on the Pros and Cons for selling a home with . Here is the entire article you can read. Use your own judgement after your reading. 

   

Title: List of Pros and Cons for selling a home as a FSBO ( ) (source: http://www.wannanetwork.com/)    

 

PROS 

     

Selling your home without an agent means More Money. If that's not an incentive, what is? By selling it yourself you save the fees or commissions (thousands of dollars) that you would have to pay an agent. But beware, many people make costly mistakes that will cost much more than hiring an agent plus a lot of undesirable stress.  

   

CONS   

   

Real estate agents are paid good money for a reason. Selling a home takes a lot of time and energy. Open houses, dealing with potential buyers, closing sales and dealing with the legal issues are familiar turf for us and our experience can impact the sale. 
Be realistic about what you are willing to do. Will you drop everything to make a showing? Are you able to ‘close the deal' and ask for an offer? It is not everyone who can take on such a big project or can handle the tension of dealing with buyers.  

   

1) An agent can Evaluate Your HomeChoosing the right price for your home is crucial to making a sale. You risk everything if your price is too far off the current market. You don't want to discourage buyers because you are pricing too high and you don't want to throw away equity because of a low asking price.  

  

2) Will Prepare Your Home for the Market  

   

Now it's time to look as objectively at your own home as you did to other peoples' homes.
Your prospective buyers will be scrutinizing your home; has it been taken care of or neglected? Will there be expensive repairs or are they hiding something? Taking the time to clean up and make repairs will repay you with confident buyers anxious to make an offer on a home that has been properly taken care of.   

 

 3)  Advertise Your Home   

 

Place the home in the MLS, many other internet sites, signs, flyers, postcards, etc. This is very costly and the agent pays for this expense and what happens if the house does not sell? The agent eats the cost.

 

4) Knows how to Show and Sell Your Home 

 

An agent knows how to deal with potential buyers and weed out the good ones from the bad. For example…credit pre qual……

 

5) Understands Legal Issues 

 

Selling and buying homes requires legal paperwork. Writing contracts to sell your home is tricky business and normally need an agent or an attorney to help you.

 

6) Will make this a fairly easy transaction for you, guide you through the entire process, feel confident and be able to sleep at night. 

 

 

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This home selling blog is filed under house no realtor selling. house no realtor selling is also called for sale by owner or by home owner sale. By home owner sale house or no realtor selling has another name called FSBO. House no realtor selling is involved in no real estate agent to list in MLS to fro the house selling. House selling tips in the is article is related the tips on selling home fast. Tips on selling home fast is my blog published at http://besthomesellingtips.com.

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